America's Favorite Pastime

Take yourself out to the ballpark with these novels and nonfiction books about baseball!

Updated April 30, 2024
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The tao of the backup catcher : playing baseball for the love of the game
Brown, Tim
Paper Book
This fascinating book "reminds us of the beauty of baseball" and chronicles the unsung men of baseball who serve the job, the hardships they face, and their love for a game that would not always love them back―told partly through the experiences of an MLB veteran. (Jim Abott, former major...
796.357 Brown, Tim 2023
Baseball cop : the dark side of America's national pastime
Dominguez, Eddie
Ebook
Exposing trafficking, theft, fraud, and gambling in the major leagues, a founding member of the MLB's Department of Investigations reveals a news-breaking true story of power and corruption. In the wake of 2005's sometimes contentious, sometimes comical congressional hearings on...
796.357 Dominguez 2018
Baseball field guide : an in-depth illustrated guide to the complete rules of baseball
Formosa, Dan
Paper Book
Admit it: Even if you're a die-hard fan of our national pastime, sometimes an umpire's call can be baffling. And for newer fans, Major League Baseball's nuanced rules--developed and revised over many decades--can be downright perplexing. Now updated throughout with the latest...
796.357 Formosa 2023
Calico Joe
Grisham, John.
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major League Baseball... "Grisham knocks it out of the park."--The Washington Post It's the summer of 1973, and Joe Castle...
The art of fielding : a novel
Harbach, Chad.
Paper Book
A disastrous error on the field sends five lives into a tailspin in this widely acclaimed tale about love, life, and baseball, praised by the New York Times as "wonderful...a novel that is every bit as entertaining as it is affecting." 
Moneyball : the art of winning an unfair game
Lewis, Michael
Paper Book
Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only "the single most influential baseball...

796.357 Lewis 2003

Welcome to the circus of baseball : a story of the perfect summer at the perfect ballpark at the perfect time
McGee, Ryan
Ebook
A gloriously funny, nostalgic memoir of a popular ESPN reporter who, in the summer of 1994, was a fresh-out-of-college intern for a minor league baseball team. Madness and charm ensue as Ryan McGee spends the season steeped in sweat, fertilizer, nacho cheese sauce, and pure, unadulterated...
796.357 McGee 2023
The cactus league
Nemens, Emily
Paper Book
Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR and Lit Hub. A Los Angeles Times Bestseller. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "In The Cactus League [Emily Nemens] provides her readers with what amounts to a miniature, self-enclosed world that is...
Why we love baseball : a history in 50 moments
Posnanski, Joe
Paper Book
THE BASEBALL 100 was about the top 100 baseball players. Joe Posnanski's next book is about the top 50 moments. Willie Mays's catch. Babe Ruth's called shot. Kirk Gibson's limping home run. BUT - each moment will be told from a unique perspective. That of a real fan who witnessed it, or the pitcher...
796.357 Posnanski 2023

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